Overview

• Haryana sent DGP Shatrujit Kapoor on leave and registered FIRs naming senior officers cited in IPS officer Y Puran Kumar’s suicide note, with Rahul Gandhi scheduled to console the family in Chandigarh today.
• In West Bengal’s Durgapur case, police said all five accused are in custody after a medical student’s assault; court remanded three for 10 days and two for nine, as outrage grew over the chief minister’s earlier remarks and national bodies sought swift justice.
• Seat‑sharing talks in Bihar’s opposition bloc remained unresolved as Tejashwi Yadav left a Delhi huddle without meeting Rahul Gandhi or Mallikarjun Kharge, and RJD symbols distributed in Patna were later taken back following internal pushback.
• Uttar Pradesh police reported multiple encounters in 24 hours, saying two wanted criminals were killed in separate incidents in Lucknow and Meerut and several suspects were arrested or wounded across other districts.
• Andhra Pradesh CID reopened the 2023 Tirumala parakamani theft after a High Court order suspending a prior settlement, with investigators seizing records and examining alleged repeated currency thefts at the temple’s counting center.